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They Made Me a Criminal · Beat 149 · permalink

Shop

51:37–51:57 Registered 1939

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:4051:40Frame at 51:5051:50

Play from 51:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 77 · shots 334–335. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing fedora and suit jacket, light complexion, young adult visible, audible
  • man wearing work shirt and cap, standing beside p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora is speaking with his hand near his chin. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand beside a poster advertising a boxing match. [frame:2]
Also said
“Looks like a killer to me.” 51:53 · “Yeah, she took eight gallons. That's $1.28.” 51:56
Seen
poster, fedora, work shirt
On screen
WILD BULL OF EUROPE GASPAR RUTCHEK TOURING U Taking on All Here
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: sports betting, reluctance to fight, everyday transaction; style notes: medium close-up and two-shot framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costume and signage

A man in a fedora speaks while standing near a poster advertising a boxing match featuring 'Gaspar Rutche' and 'Wild Bull of Europe'. Another man in work clothes stands beside him, and dialogue references money and reluctance to fight a large opponent.

“Say, I wouldn't get in the ring with that big ugly moose for $5,000 a round.” 51:46 · “Wild bull of Europe.” 51:51 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from They Made Me a Criminal (1939) at 51:40 (passage 51:37–51:57); US record: No renewal found

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